15-415PC

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

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PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

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October 26, 2015 - 10:05 a.m.

Concord, New Hampshire

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NHPUC NOV09'15

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RE:

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DE 15-415

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

d/b/a EVERSOURCE ENERGY:

Proposed Default Energy Service Rate

for 2016.

(Prehearing con?erence)

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PRESENT:

David K. Wiesner, Esq.

(Presiding as Hearings Examiner)

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Sandy Deno, Clerk

APPEARANCES:

Reptg. Public Service Co. of New Hampshire

d/b/a Eversource Energy:

Matthew J. Fossum, Esq.

Reptg. PUC Staff:

Suzanne G. Amidon, Esq.

Grant Siwinski, Electric Division

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Court Reporter:

Steven E. Patnaude, LCR No'.¡¤ 5 2

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I N D E X

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STATEMENTS OF PRELIMINARY POSITION BY:

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Mr. Fossum

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Ms. Amidon

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P R O C E E D I N G

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HEARINGS EXAMINER WIESNER:

I'm Dave Wiesner.

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morning.

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Examiners here at the Commission.

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serve as Presiding Officer for this docket, DE 15-415,

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which is the filing by PSNH, doing business as Eversource,

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for its Default Service rate for 2016.

I've been designated to

I don't believe there are any pending

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I'm one of the Hearings

motions to intervene or any other matters we need to

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address.

So, I'll just begin by taking appearances from

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the parties.

MR. FOSSUM:

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Good morning.

Matthew

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Fossum, here for Public Service Company of New Hampshire,

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doing business as Eversource Energy.

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is Chris Goulding, from the Company.

With me this morning

HEARINGS EXAMINER WIESNER:

Thank you.

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MS. AMIDON:

I'm Suzanne

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Amidon, for Commission Staff.

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table is Grant Siwinski, an analyst in the Electric

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Division.

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Good morning.

Good morning.

And, with me at counsel's

And, I just would offer that the OCA has

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entered a letter of participation.

I believe that they

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are involved in a proceeding that is taking place in

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Room A.

And, so, I'm not surprised that they have no one

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here this morning.

HEARINGS EXAMINER WIESNER:

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MS. AMIDON:

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HEARINGS EXAMINER WIESNER:

You're welcome.

I'd ask the

Company to offer its initial position.

MR. FOSSUM:

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Okay.

very brief.

Thank you.

And, I'll be

Consistent with our prior practice, we have

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submitted our request for a change to our Default Service

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or Energy Service rate for January 1st, 2016.

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calculated and presented in a manner similar to the way

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that this rate has been traditionally calculated and

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presented.

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It's been

The only nuance that I'll note for the

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record in this particular case is that, as has been set

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out both in the testimony and in the Petition, for the

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last few years the calculation of the rate has included

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what I'll refer to as a "Scrubber adder", a set amount of

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0.98 cents per kilowatt-hour.

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filing is that, instead of using that adder to calculate

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this preliminary rate, the Company has used an all-in

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Scrubber adder to reflect full recovery of the Scrubber

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and deferred balance.

What's different about this

So, that is included in the

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calculation of this preliminary rate, and will be updated

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as necessary pending events relating to, well, I guess, to

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how that adder is calculated and applied, which are

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actually ongoing in real time in other dockets.

That said, we presented a preliminary

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rate, which we will update closer to the date of hearing,

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consistent with prior practice.

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working with the Company and the -- or, with the, I'm

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sorry, with Staff and the OCA to work through any issues

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of discovery, and to present an appropriate rate for the

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Commission's approval in December.

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Thank you.

HEARINGS EXAMINER WIESNER:

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And, we look forward to

And,

Ms. Amidon.

MS. AMIDON:

Thank you.

We have not

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taken a position on the filing at present.

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agree with the Company that the principal issue that is

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different from the prior filings is the inclusion of what

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is anticipated to be full recovery of Scrubber costs.

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And, I would

As you may know, Attorney Wiesner, there

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are two dockets pending.

One is 11-250, which was an

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investigation of the cost recovery of the Scrubber; the

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Commission suspended that docket pending resolution in

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docket 14-238, which is -- originally was, I guess, an

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economic evaluation of PSNH's generation assets, and now

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